Herman Cain and His Big Personality Visits with Jon Stewart
Herman Cain visits Jon Stewart on The Daily Show's Tampa set, and Stewart asks: Why are some of these delegates still more enthusiastic about Herman Cain than Mitt Romney?
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Herman Cain visits Jon Stewart on The Daily Show's Tampa set, and Stewart asks: Why are some of these delegates still more enthusiastic about Herman Cain than Mitt Romney?
When New York federal judge Jack Weinstein ruled last week that poker is indeed a game of skill, he based the decision off defendant Lawrence DiCristina's 120-page report that included this striking chart showing the difference in earnings between the ten best and worst poker players in a study.
John McCain on Republican foreign policy, Dana Milbank on Romney the control freak, Thomas Friedman on Egyptian President Morsi, Marc Tracy on Chris Christie with a Mitt lens, and Daniel P. Aldrich on community building.
The Daily Show returned last night, live from Tampa, and Jon Stewart checked in with the correspondents—discovering that Tampa was the perfect place for the Republican National Convention.
Americans haven't always paid for health care with public programs like Medicare—or even with private insurance. In fact, Americans used to pay for things like medicine almost entirely out-of-pocket, as seen in this animated graph showing changes in who pays for health care by the California HealthCare Foundation.
Sad news for politically-active Hall and Oates fans: The Hall and Oates Fans for America Super PAC is no more, Rolling Stone's Andy Greene writes.
Ramesh Ponnuru on Social Security, Kimberley Strassel on the spirit of reforming governors, Sean Lennon on fracking, David Brooks on the "real" Romney, and Najmedin Meshtaki and Guive Mirfendereski on a relationship with Iran.
The Chicago Transit Authority's new train cars went into service recently, and Chicagoans are not happy that the seating faces-in—their once scenic view of the city has been replaced by the butts and crotches of standing passengers, The Chicago Tribune's Jon Hilkevitch writes.
Where NBA players make shots during games may seem random, but when you put it all together, a pattern emerges, according to this chart by Court Vision Analytics blogger Kirk Goldsberry of every shot in the 2011-2012 NBA season.
In light of poor domestic wine sales in China, a bidder at a wine festival auction smashed a bottle of French white wine after paying 100,000 RMB (or $15,000) for it, hoping the demonstration would encourage people to buy more Chinese wine, according to e-magazine Tea Leaf Nation.
In a welcome back to college video for mtvU, The Daily Show's Jon Stewart reminds first-time voting college freshmen that Mitt Romney's running mate Paul Ryan is a different person entirely from Ron Paul, according to a video exclusive to Vulture.com.
Bill Keller on the last bipartisan senator, Stephen Smith on public transit, Allan S. Weiner on human rights and economics in Vietnam, Nicholas Sambanis on identity conflict in Europe, and Michael Barone on the evolution of Republicans.
By definition, logos are meant to be unique definers of a company or organization, but it turns out, some logo shapes are trendier than others, according to this graph by logo design blog Emblemetric.
You know that scene in Portlandia where the insufferable couple keeps asking if everything on a restaurant's menu is local? Now, imagine how they might react knowing that the bees that supplied the honey for their tea were so close, they might risk being stung?
Mitt Romney on what he learned at Bain, Michael Bloomberg and George Mitchell on fracking correctly, Thomas Geoghegan on Medicare as an unstoppable stimulus, Henri J. Barkey on intervening in Syria, and R. Scott Asen on paying more for private school
Both candidate claims their proposals are better for Americans, but Obama's plans will benefit more of them, according to data analysis by statisticians at Politify.com, as laid out in an interactive map showing a geographical breakdown.
William B Harrison Jr. in defense of big banks, Nancy Pelosi on the unproductive Republican House, Tom Coburn on Paul Ryan's seriousness, Linda Greenhouse on the way judges interpret free speech, and Rowan Callick on the weight of history on East Asia.
If investment in education is correlated with business competition, then the U.S. better watch out: India and China are on our tails as far college graduates go, according to this chart by research institute Center for American Progress.
As Stephen Colbert showed earlier this year, just about any joker can make a Super PAC these days, and as if to prove that, a couple of political junkie waiters in Atlanta have launched The Hall and Oates Fans for America Super PAC (PDF) a group dedicated to criticizing Mitt Romney and some sweet, sweet harmonizing.
Federal investigators temporarily shut down a slaughterhouse in Hanford, California that supplies meat to the popular In-N-Out chain (as well as several schools) this week after an animal rights activist group released a video of poorly treated cows on YouTube, according to ABC News' Cindi Galli and Brian Ross.
Laurence Kotlikoff on economists as political hacks, Thomas Friedman on the need to meet in the middle, David Ignatius on negotiations with Iran, Alexander Cooley on the problems bordering Afghanistan, and Anne Applebaum on why Pussy Riot is Putin's greatest threat.
What political books are residents of your state reading? A new interactive map from Amazon shows recent book sales broken down by either "red" or "blue" political leanings.
David Brooks on a dynamic America, Peter Orszag on private-market healthcare, Noreen Malone on Paul Ryan and GenX, Michael Moore and Oliver Stone in defense of WikiLeaks, and Chad Griffin on the language of hate.
The ice over the Arctic Ocean is shrinking at record rates this year, a stark signal of global warming, scientists say. How bad is it? Watch this striking animated GIF of the past few decades' of ice shrinkage from climate change blog Open Mind.
Lawrence Summers on the truth about small government, Peter Beinart on public debate about war with Iran, Anita Isaacs on the real reason Ecuador housed Assange, Elena Marks on the flexibility of insurance exchanges, and Ahmed Zewail on science research.
Canada may not be as progressive as its persistent stereotype has it: The Bank of Canada chose not to use "an Asian-looking woman" on new $100 bills after a focus group complained, replacing her with a woman who looks more white, The Canadian Press' Dean Beeby reports.
Shockingly, people are still paying M. Night Shyamalan to produce work. But will any of it be good? Probably not if they follow the trend in this chart from Reddit user MrFrenchTrickler, who visualized the Sixth Sense director's downward spiral.
Peggy Noonan on Paul Ryan as Clark Kent, Dana Milbank on labeling hate groups, Karin Olsson on Julian Assange's flight to Ecuador, Alex Koppelman on dying breed of moderates, and Jonathan Weil on bank regulation.
Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart broke down states with rules that prevented some people from voting in the best way he knows how.
Retail behemoth Walmart released earnings Thursday, and many have used the report as a way to gauge how the American consumer feels. Take a look at this animated GIF map by Excel Hero that illustrates the wildfire-like spread of Walmart stores that led to its domination of the United States.
The Internet culture-friendly engineers and scientists at the Mars Curiosity Rover Mission took to Reddit today to do an AMA, or "ask me anything." Here are five things we learned.
Ezra Klein on Obama launching Ryan to the top, Karl Rove on GOP's Medicare advantage, Charles K. Armstrong on change in North Korea, Victor Davis Hanson on the culture divide in California, and Dana Milbank on the Democrats getting dirty.
After Joe Biden used a crass slavery analogy, some said the campaign season had reached a new low, but Jon Stewart had news for those people last night on The Daily Show: If you really think that's low, you clearly haven't been following the campaign.
There's a sex scandal brewing in China, and the photos associated with it may just be the cheesiest in the history of online scandals.
You always hear about the lack of women CEOs, but what about the ratio of men and women at the rungs right below the top, the senior executives? Two social scientists graphed the ratio of men to women based on education, salary, and senior executive title, the step right below CEO.
Amy Davidson on Paul Ryan's father, Bartle B. Bull on the needs of Syrian rebels, William Pesek on state-sponsored business, John Lough on Pussy Riot, and Ruth Marcus on Medicare debates.
Is paying extra for pizza worth the rising healthcare costs? Jon Stewart answered Papa John's claim that Obamacare will raise pizza costs last night on The Daily Show: Uh, yeah, it's worth it.
Michael R. Bloomberg on immigration reform and the economy, Dexter Filkins on the troubled Afghanistan, Charles Lane on the financial health of senior citizens, Margaret Carlson on Paul Ryan, and George Monbiot on biofuels and the African famine.
Jon Stewart went after media coverage of the Paul Ryan vice presidential announcement, last night on The Daily Show.
Are all men potential pedophiles? If you're a passenger on a Qantas Airways or Virgin Australia flight, the answer is yes, as both airlines have policies forbidding adult men from sitting next to unaccompanied minors.
Bill Keller on the Romney administration, Adam Kirsch on money and politics, Matt Miller on the myths of Paul Ryan, Joseph E. Stiglitz and Mark Zandi on the last housing crisis solution, and Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom on voter ID laws and democracy
So what exactly do people think when you say you're from your state? Blogger Renee DiResta found Google's top four autocompleted searches of "Why is [insert state name] so" and put it all in an interactive map.
Jon Stewart checked in with campaign attacks last night on The Daily Show, and his take: Come on, guys. Try harder.
The federal deficit was 67 percent of our GDP in 2011, which is pretty bad, but not as bad as in that of the U.K., Italy, Japan, or Greece, according to a chart compiled by The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. And, they claim, if our current rate of debt continues, we'll match Greece's level in about 2030.
It's been five years today since the economy went to crap, the Financial Times reports. While we'd like to say that so much as changed since then, a birthday is a birthday. So break out the cheap champagne (or tears, or something) and mull over these five reasons to have a little bit of hope.
These are troubled times, Jon Stewart said last night on The Daily Show, and one big problem is apparently voter fraud.
Jon Stewart went after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid again last night on The Daily Show for the senator's accusation that Mitt Romney hasn't paid taxes. But wait: Reid is the one who put the word out in the first place, Stewart said. "What are you, a one man Mormon Blabbernacle Choir?"
Does your town have enough bars and restaurants? Real estate trends blog Trulia mapped out the metro areas with the highest concentration of restaurants and bars to help you find out.
When it comes to ideas to get rich parents to spend money on ritzy summer camps for their children, the idea of teaching rich kids how to be rich is a little meta.
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